Mourning in The Digital Age Brings New Pitfalls (on Patrick Stokes' book Digital Souls. A Philosophy of Online Death)
2021
Abstract
Australian philosopher Patrick Stokes has long been interested in questions of death and personal identity: can the post-mortem presence of a person on the internet be considered a form of survival? If so, who is the survivor when, for example, a social network profile remains after the deceased? Philosophy has always been a "slow-moving animal" that cannot compete with the speed at which the transformations of digital technologies take place. Nevertheless, Peter Stokes' book "Digital Souls.
A Philosophy of Online Death (Bloomsbury 2021)" shows that a meeting between the slow time of philosophy and the fast time of technology is possible.